Posts Tagged ‘prisoners’

I’m familiar, as we all are – for our different reasons – with sporadic feelings of straightforward anger at the government. That’s normal in a democracy, I think. But lately something else ha...
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How do drugs really get into our jails? In a characteristically vigorous response to widespread criticism of his ban on books (or any other parcel) being sent in to prisons, the Justice Secretary Chri...
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Who knew that thieves, murderers and rapists were such lovely people? A survey of 79 prisoners by brainy swots at the University of Southampton has found that inmates regard themselves as morally sup...
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What's the point in doing studies if you know better than the studies? The Government did something clever: it started a few small-scale pilot trials of a new policy. It was a policy with clear goals,...
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Among the reasons why I enjoy being a Telegraph blogger is the reassurance – for a writer accustomed to being denounced as a warmongering, anti-Irish turncoat, anti-EU, pro-Zionist, Islamophobic Tor...
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In demanding that the British government grant at least some prisoners the right to vote, the European Court of Human Rights is not only overruling Cameron and Co. It is also riding roughshod over his...
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It's been a strange occasion in the Commons. These big set-piece events too often fail to live up to the billing, and today's debate on votes for prisoners and the ECHR is one such. For a start, the d...
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The expectation is that the Commons will vote on the Davis/Straw motion to reject the ECHR ruling, and Anne Main's amendment to prevent them from claiming compensation (you can read the motions here)....
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Two cheers for David Cameron, who has done the right thing by giving prisoners the vote, albeit with deep reluctance. The PM was said to be "exasperated" and "furious" about a decision reportedly forc...
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